Excerpt from The Pacific Expositor, 1860, Vol. 1 WE Now offer to our friends and the public, the first number of the pacific expositor. An eminent man, in a plea for a college in our State, has said: There are no five States together in our Western World, which, if they had none at all, would want an institution of this kind so much as California does. This is undoubtedly true and as to a magazine, of the kind we propose, the remark is equally true. The power of the Press is beyond all calculation in time, eternity alone can disclose it. All sects and denominations, all schools, creeds and par ties, understand the necessity of using the Press to propagate and defend their Opinions and measures. They all have their organs, from the daily sheet to the stately quarterly. By this publication it is our wish to supply what seems to us to be a special and pressing want on this coast. It is far from our wish to interfere with any other publication, for there is none among us of the kind we design. The pacific expositor is to be devoted to the exposition of God's Word, and the preaching of the Gospel, according to the standards of our Church. We wish to do by the press for our fellow-men, just what we do for Calvary Congregation every Sabbath; that is, to expound, explain and preach to them, the word of the Living god. Our columns will be open, also, to our brethren, for their sermons and the productions of their pens, and we have reason to believe, that we shall have their cordial co-operation. We would, if possible, furnish sermons to be read on the Lord's day, in the lonely places of our valleys and mountains, where there is no pastor or evangelist to Open his mouth and show the way of salvation; and into the crowded village of miners, farmers and travelers, where as yet, there is no house of worship, we desire to send the expositor, to open to them the Scriptures, and preach unto them Jesus. It is well known that a large number of the half million of souls that are on this coast, do not attend any church or meeting-house; many thousands of them never hear a sermon preached from year to year. We would make them all, if possible, our hearers by this publication, just as Calvary Congregation is, and furnish them with suitable reading for the family and for Sunday. We would furnish them with such reading as may remind them of their early training, the home of their youth, and cause them to seek and erve the God of their Fathers, with a perfect heart and a willing mind. We hope to embody in our pages sterling truths; truths calculated to enlighten the mind, elevate the heart, and purify the a 'ections; truths drawn chie y from the Word of God, and presented in a plain, clear and forcible style, that they may be suita2 The Pacific Expositor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."